Strife Quotes - Page 10

Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

Carl Jung

Philosophy, Teaching, Men

"Liber Novus".

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As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

Ivan Panin

Beautiful, Sea, Storm

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For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
Beat wild on this world's shore,
And all our calm is in that balm—
Not lost but gone before.

Caroline Norton

Life And Death, Gone, World

"Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.

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So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

John Masefield

Beautiful, Wise, Kings

John Masefield, Margaret Bridges, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Letters to Margaret Bridges (1915-1919)”, Olympic Marketing Corporation

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An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Atheist, Religion, Atheism

Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1991). “Why I Am an Atheist ; Including, A History of Materialism”, Amer Atheist Press

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This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

People, World, May

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...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness?

John of Damascus

Christian, Men, Yield

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...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor enduring unless they are drawn firmly together by the crown of prayer. This endless, unstirring calm of prayer... can neither be achieved nor consummated without these virtues. And likewise virtues are the prerequisite foundation of prayer and cannot be effected without it.

John Cassian

Christian, Prayer, Perfect

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The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

Laozi

Perfect, House, Design

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Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Leo Tolstoy

Understanding, Humanity, Obscure

"What is Art?". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1897.

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O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand! To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect nonchalance! To be indeed a God!

Walt Whitman

Death, Struggle, Gun

Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.51, Haskell House Pub Limited

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If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.

Frank Knight

Struggle, Mean, Revolution

Frank Hyneman Knight, Hubert Bonner (1947). “Freedom and reform: essays in economics and social philosophy”

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At end of Love, at end of Life, At end of Hope, at end of Strife' At end of all we cling to so- The sun is setting-we must go. At dawn of Love, at dawn of Life, At dawn of Peace that follows Strife, At dawn of all we long for so- The sun is rising-let us go.

Louise Chandler Moulton

Life, Long, Sun

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Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great league of sympathy and services, which, by the terms of our definition, it seeks to exhibit now on a small scale.

Joseph Fort Newton

Oasis, League, Definitions

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The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

William Howard Taft

Responsibility, Character, Perfection

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To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.

Will Durant

Harmony, Universal

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Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Ovid

Beauty, Modesty

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Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.

Samuel Johnson

Travel, Views, Toil

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.548

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Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

Richard Crashaw

Sweet, Art, Wine

Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.15

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With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which it strives toward but has not yet won. With you it is otherwise. The mind follows the body in pursuit of the soul you have been told you already have. Because you cannot find it, you assume you have lost it somewhere in your past, and this keeps you from achieving it in your future.

Sheri S. Tepper

Past, Expectations, Soul

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Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Confidence, Heart, Men

Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.221

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Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth.

Homer

Sky, Earth, Rage From The Iliad

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Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

Hannah More

Daughter, Spring, Women

Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Neil Young

Education, Learning, Abnormal

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Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'

Heraclitus

Decay, Mixtures

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